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In the series “Desmemórias,” São Paulo, Brazil based artist/architect Lucas Simões cuts out geometrical shapes from digitally-produced copies of portraits, and then layers them on top of more portraits of the same person.

Skay writes in his artist’s statement, “The most satisfying moment in making art is not the final idea, but the process it took to get there. I’m inspired by the world around me. Trying to express emotions and the state of mass human . . . → Read More: Collages by Mark Skay

For today… some spectacularly done photographs by Stephanie Jung of various cities in Japan – Nara, Shibuya, Osaka, and Tokyo. I love the painterly qualities of the work and how the repetition jars the viewer’s eye to connote motion.

Belgium based artist Isabelle Menin invents a surreal parallel natural world in her artistic practice. Taking pictures of natural elements, like flowers and foilage, Menin digitally collages, composes and enhances her own photographic images to create a neo-romantic painterly version of nature. In these works, flowers and leaves take on dramatic roles buffeted by . . . → Read More: Digital photographic collages of a surreal natural world by Isabelle Menin

Madrid, Spain based photographer Silvia Grav creates haunting photographic portraits of young women. Using digital manipulations to create transparencies and layerings, Grav’s work has a strong ethereal and eerie quality. They remind me of the work of Laurence Demaison.

French artist Fabienne Rivory combines photography and watercolor paints to create these breathtaking images. Using gouache or inks to create texture, shading and bright areas of color, Rivory digitally combines the paintings with photographs from her personal collection of landscapes. These are simple images but highly evocative of fleeting moments and dreams.